Re: Made some progress...
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 8, 2002, 22:47 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
> (Random comment: English tends not to like having phrases become
> words and still inflect in the middle: 'mothers-in-law', for example,
> decided to become 'mother-in-laws'.
I hear the "mothers-in-law" type construction most of the time. Of
course, the possessive is still "mother-in-law's", but then, the
possessive is more of a phrase-final clitic than a suffix.
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